China will hold joint naval and air drills with Russia in Sea of ​​Japan and the Sea of ​​Okhotsk this month, along with the two countries carrying out a joint maritime patrol in the Pacific, announced China’s Ministry of National Defense on Monday. Over the weekend, Japan Maritime Self Defense Force tracked a four-ship People’s Liberation Army Navy surface action group likely making its way to the exercise. In other developments, the Royal Australian Navy began its multinational naval exercise Kakadu 2024 in Darwin, Australia on Monday. “According to the annual plan and the consensus between China and Russia, the